{"id":6164,"date":"2020-04-21T14:54:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:11:58","slug":"the-estimated-impact-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-documented-cases-of-covid-19-a-cross-country-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/the-estimated-impact-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-documented-cases-of-covid-19-a-cross-country-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The estimated impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on documented cases of COVID-19: A cross-country analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors provide estimates on the effectiveness of various non-pharmaceutical interventions based on early estimates from 20 countries, including the US.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Closure of venues was associated with a 33% reduction in new cases (95% CI: 16-47%), bands on non-essential business with a 28% reduction (10-42%), border closures with a 26% reduction (13-37%), and school closures only 11% (0-27%). These findings are relevant for evaluating current containment policies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banholzer et al. (April 21, 2020). The estimated impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on documented cases of COVID-19: A cross-country analysis. Pre-print downloaded Apr 21 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20062141\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20062141<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors provide estimates on the effectiveness of various non-pharmaceutical interventions based on early estimates from 20 countries, including the US.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Closure of venues was associated with a 33% reduction in new cases (95% CI: 16-47%), bands on non-essential business with a 28% reduction (10-42%), border closures with a 26% reduction (13-37%), and school closures&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/21\/the-estimated-impact-of-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-documented-cases-of-covid-19-a-cross-country-analysis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}